Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

[Mike McGrath]

On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Mike McGrath wrote:
>
> I really don't know what our users are a measure of.  I don't think it's
> marketing as inode0 suggests, because the people using Fedora already know
> about it.  But if we step back and take our users seriously.  We'll find
> that since Fedora Core 6 released in 2006-10-24 to today, we've
> experienced a net growth of negative 3%.  Yup, a 3% loss of users.
>
> Our own users are moving _AWAY_ from Fedora.  For whatever reason more
> users have chosen to not use Fedora then who have chosen to use Fedora.
> I suspect many have moved downsteam to Enterprise Linux.  Which is ok
> but it's an indication that people came, tried Fedora, and moved on.
>

Along with the above...  If we're going to be the best at something don't
we need to pick something to be the best at?

http://www.linux.com/learn/docs/ldp/282996-choosing-the-best-linux-distributions-for-you

I particularly like this:

"Ubuntu edges out its closest contenders, Fedora and openSUSE, because its
development team is constantly focused on the end-user experience."

What is it we're focused on?  Do I need to just ask everyone individually
and hope we all say the same thing?

	-Mike